Clerihews Poems - Poems about Clerihews

I. The great Albert Einstein Would appreciate a fine wine, And after sipping a little He would play upon his fiddle II. The legendary chemist Linus Pauling Found the hydrogen and atom bombs appalling, And after winning one for chemistry he would not cease Until he won another Nobel Prize for peace. III. Madame Marie Sklodowska Curie Was just as famous as could be— Amidst the fin-de-siècle...

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An English goal scorer,named Kane in Russia '18 found world-wide fame. With six goals,he has the Golden Boot for with both head and foot,he could shoot. a striker,one,Christiano Ronaldo In the World Cup,gave a one-man-show, With hat-tricks galore Goals of skill,never seen,before...

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Warning, if you are under 60 you may not "get" some of these. Mohammad Ali taunting with poetry, his opponents he'd zing as he danced 'bout the ring. Graham Kerr "The Galloping Gourmet" oft with our minds he would play. Why else would he pick the dessert "Spotted Dick"? Ichabod Crane rode down rode down the lane. From the Headless Horseman he'd flee while on his saddle...

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The man was a legend. So farewell, Cassius Clay, Ali You knocked out a bit of poetry That butterfly one sure packed a sting And well done on the boxing thing Mohammed, man, you’re counted out You gave the boxing thing a shout Wrote rhyme to make a grown man cry And dodged the draft like a butterfly Ali, you’ve packed your...

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World famous actor Tom Cruise in talent and looks cannot lose. Success is the guy’s middle name. It’s his love life he just can’t maintain! A younger and hotter Tom Cruise must have had to wear lifts in his shoes. His first wife Nicole was so tall! Did size ever matter at all? With a much younger starlet, Tom Cruise got attached, and it...

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Her name is Seren Yes the proud welsh girl, not foe, hopefully a fren The number of contest she entered, maybe a million On a scale of 1 to 10, I’d give her a billion She has passionately stated her favorite color is green She talked about more shades than I think I’ve seen My vision isn’t great, but good...

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Jack Ellison wasn't from Nantucket I read prose that his cleaning lady had a nice bucket But he vowed to look in silence quite as a mouse For fear of sleeping in the perpetual doghouse PD, appears and disappears like whoodini I have seen the poems where she's a meanie She also wrote about trading seeds for a donkey She could have...

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PEE WEE HERMAN Thought cops wouldn’t determine, he put himself in that popcorn box. Maybe he should have used his socks. HOWARD HUGHES A world famous recluse. Millions for planes, women and cars, treasured most his urine in jars. CATHERINE THE GREAT A czarina whose needs couldn’t wait. Rumored to have a private stable, with horses…. if her Cossacks weren’t able. AESOP May his fables never stop, true treasures...

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COLUMBUS Signore Christopher Columbus came up with a wacky notion. He claimed he could reach India by crossing the Atlantic Ocean! "Just think of all them spices and gold! We ain't got nothin' to lose!" Queen Isabella thought him nuts but reluctantly funded the cruise. LT COLONEL CUSTER Arrogant Custer thought he was the greatest thing since the invention of dynamite! He...

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I learned something the other day that I never knew. There is a form of poetry known as the clerihew! 'Tis a form of rhyme about a luminary of some fame, And the first line must contain the feller's name. Alexander Graham Bell, as every schoolboy has known, Was the genius who invented the mysterious telephone. 'Tis well known that he...

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